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“Road Rage” by Catatonia
From the album International Velvet (1998)
“Road Rage” by Catatonia appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1998 and 2025. It was first released in 1998 on the album International Velvet. Its best result is #5 on the Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #120 alternative song of 1998 and #5,438 alternative song of all time.
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"Road Rage" was the third single from International Velvet, the second album by Welsh band Catatonia, and Blanco y Negro put it out in April 1998 hot on the heels of their breakthrough, "Mulder and Scully". The band produced it with Tommy Danvers, Joe Gibb engineered, and Danvers mixed it with Roland Herrington, and it swaggers along with a big, bellowing chorus built for singing along in the car.
The star turn belongs to Cerys Matthews, and critics fell hard for the way she rolls her R's through that chorus. It went to number five in Britain and earned a silver disc, cracked the Irish top 30 and the Australian top 40, picked up best-song nominations at the Brit Awards and the Ivor Novellos, and won at the Q Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | Virgin Radio United Kingdom | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1998 | 10 |
| 1998 | 80 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 | 98 |
| 1998 | 48 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998 | 100 |
| 2000 | 39 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1997 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 332 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2003 | 57 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) | 100 |
| 2004 | 438 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2025 | 37 | Absolute Radio | Absolute Radio 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems | 100 |
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